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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Oldtimer2
The magic of Google:
How Old Is the Moon? Scientists Say They Finally Know
A new analysis of lunar rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts suggests that the moon formed 4.51 billion years ago — just 60 million years after the solar system itself took shape.
That article even came out yesterday.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
Most things in orbit over a long enough time will smooth down to near-round. Like the planets.
The Earth Without the Moon The period when the Earth was Moonless is probably the most remote recollection of mankind. Democritus and Anaxagoras taught that there was a time when the Earth was without the Moon.(1) Aristotle wrote that Arcadia in Greece, before being inhabited by the Hellenes, had a population of Pelasgians, and that these aborigines occupied the land already before there was a moon in the sky above the Earth; for this reason they were called Proselenes.
(2) Apollonius of Rhodes mentioned the time “when not all the orbs were yet in the heavens, before the Danai and Deukalion races came into existence, and only the Arcadians lived, of whom it is said that they dwelt on mountains and fed on acorns, before there was a moon.”
(3) Plutarch wrote in The Roman Questions: “There were Arcadians of Evander’s following, the so-called pre-Lunar people.”(4) Similarly wrote Ovid: “The Arcadians are said to have possessed their land before the birth of Jove, and the folk is older than the Moon.” (5) Hippolytus refers to a legend that “Arcadia brought forth Pelasgus, of greater antiquity than the moon.”(6) Lucian in his Astrology says that “the Arcadians affirm in their folly that they are older than the moon.”
(7) Censorinus also alludes to the time in the past when there was no moon in the sky.(8)
So it’s settled then, humans built the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
originally posted by: neo96
What the hell people.
Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese.
Space the ultimate refrigerator.
originally posted by: Woodcarver
So it’s settled then, humans built the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
originally posted by: Plotus
SO the Earth is how old ? And the moon if recent is how old. Before the moon there would of been no tides, or tidal forces. The Earth's waters would of been static. Would there have been n Aurora ? or ozone, or Moonpies.
Careful! That's what happens when you think things through! And yes, the moon is made of exactly the same substances and elements that the Earth is.... (almost like it came from here. Hmmmm.